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There is also Hedychiuni gardnerianum, with large soft 

 leaves and flower spikes from 12 to 18 inches high, covered 

 with from 100 to 150 flowers, orange-yellow with scarlet 

 stamens ; one of a family closely aUied to the tropical 

 arrow-roots ; a new species of Senecio (groundsel) with 

 leaves 18 in. by 12 in., fresh, soft and green ; a stately plant 

 (Senecio arborea) which promises to be a great addition 

 to the sub-tropical group ; a new Mttsa (M. sinensis), its 

 leaves striped or barred with purple. Amongst other 

 tropical large-foliaged plants are the Ricimis (the castor-oil 

 plant) ; the giant red-flowered tobacco ; three species of 

 Azalea (A. siebo/di, A. cashmeriensis, and A . papyracea) ; 

 masses of Canna indica ; and single specimens of the lovely 

 C. ehemanni, by far the best of all the Cannes, with its 

 large, pure, rose-coloured flowers on hanging terminals. 

 Groups of the giant-leaved Gunnera, from South America, 

 (G. manicata and G. scabra), which are said to be the largest 

 leaved of all terrestrial plants, some of them being from 

 5 ft. to 6 ft. across, and having a superficial area of from 

 20 ft. to 25 ft. ; they are here, however, exceeded by the 

 leaves of the great Mitsce near them, some of which actually 

 attain a surface of over 28 ft. 



The Arnndo conspiaia from New Zealand, a plant re- 

 sembling the Pampas grass, but far handsomer, flowering 

 in July, and retaining its plumes until the winter; Spircstr, 

 some 12 or 14 species ; and Fiinkio' in great variety, hardy 

 ])lants which need no extra care, were also noted. 



Prominent among the foreign accessions to the English 

 garden are the different species of Bamboo ; about a dozen 

 species are here represented of heights varying from 5 ft. 

 to 20 ft., some of them forming dense masses 6 ft. to 7 ft. 

 across at the base. These grand plants give a most dis- 

 tinctly sub-tropical character to the garden. Such are a 

 few of the many interesting plants which Dr Cook has 

 succeeded in acclimatizins; at Priors Mesne. 



